Part One - July 12, 2026

We will focus on the use of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), developed by Dan Hughes. DDP is an attachment-focused, trauma-informed approach that helps children heal from developmental trauma within the context of their most important relationships. Grounded in attachment theory, DDP recognizes that trauma disrupts a child's sense of safety, trust, and connection. Through a collaborative process involving the child, parents, and therapist, families are supported in creating new experiences of emotional safety, attunement, and understanding that foster healing and secure attachment.

Participants will gain:

• A foundational understanding of the DDP model and its application to attachment ruptures
• Practical interventions for working with parents experiencing blocked care
• Strategies for increasing parental reflective functioning
• Clinical language and protocols for bringing attachment processes into parent-child conversations
• Skills for facilitating repair following relational ruptures

Part Two - July 14, 2026

We will focus on recovery from childhood trauma using the Relationship Recovery Process (RRP), developed by Amanda Curtin. At the heart of RRP is the understanding that growing up in an unsafe or dysfunctional family environment often creates a disconnection between the adult self and the inner child. While the adult self navigates present-day life, the inner child carries the emotions, unmet needs, survival strategies, and relational expectations formed during childhood. Although we grow older, these early experiences continue to influence how we think, feel, relate to others, and respond to stress. RRP offers a framework for reconnecting these parts of the self, helping the adult develop a compassionate relationship with the inner child so that old wounds can be understood, healed, and no longer unconsciously shape current relationships and life experiences.

Participants will gain:

• Tools for helping clients identify and articulate formative childhood experiences
• Methods for identifying triggers and linking present-day reactions to earlier attachment experiences
• An introduction to inner child dialogue as a clinical intervention
• Practical reparenting strategies for supporting emotional regulation and self-compassion
• A framework for understanding survival adaptations and their persistence into adulthood.

Together, these two approaches (DDP and RRP) offer a powerful framework for understanding attachment trauma across the lifespan - from preventing and repairing attachment ruptures in children and families to helping adult survivors heal the enduring effects of childhood trauma and break cycles of intergenerational transmission.